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Correspondence regarding renaming Garden Place
Tuesday 27 February | Camera Obscura,
This week we are highlighting an item of correspondence received by the library in 1974 from a descendant of a militia settler, Frederic Gaudin.
75th Jubilee of the Waikato Winter Show
Tuesday 27 February | Camera Obscura,
This week’s item comes from 1982, when the Waikato Winter Show celebrated it’s 75th Jubilee. The ‘all new’ show promised to have something for everyone at the Claudelands Showgrounds.
The Waikato Hotel
Tuesday 27 February | Camera Obscura,
Built in 1878, the Waikato Hotel was located on the southeast corner of Grey Street and Clyde Street HCL_04429 This is the Waikato Hotel, the lease of which Frederic Edward Gaudin…
The history of Waikato Hospital part 2
Thursday 15 February | Stories of Hamilton,
Lounge in Ward 18 at Waikato Hospital c.
Victoria Street in Cambridge
Thursday 15 February | Camera Obscura,
This is a view, you could say, indistinct from many New Zealand and Australian towns in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
British Drama League Waikato Area Sixth Annual Festival
Thursday 15 February | Camera Obscura,
HCLE_00876 Here is a programme for the British Drama League Waikato Area Sixth Annual Festival.
Man & woman on single horse buggy
Thursday 15 February | Camera Obscura,
Outside Silverdale House, January 1895. Mr F E N Gaudin and his sister Mrs Marie Davis are seated in a trap.
Bridge & Anglesea Streets roundabout
Thursday 15 February | Camera Obscura,
This used to be a ‘T’ intersection but it has not been so for many years since the opening of the whole of Cobham Drive.
The Merry Widow
Thursday 15 February | Camera Obscura,
HCLE_00353 This week we are showcasing a programme from the Hamilton Operatic Society from September 1953.
Old Hamiltonians
Thursday 15 February | Camera Obscura,
HCL_00334 An image of influential Hamiltonians.
Elderly men pass the time of day
Wednesday 14 February | Camera Obscura,
Entering into September across the country, bowling clubs even in the darkest recesses of the very south of the South Island, readied for the season’s opening torrential spring rain notwithstanding.
Drawing room at Silverdale
Sunday 11 February | Camera Obscura,
Today’s image is the drawing room of Silverdale House in 1895, a great example of Victorian décor, patterns everywhere! A sign of the times is also the different musical instruments,…